the Review
 
Issue Number 13 - Spring 1998

 

The editors are pleased to feature more postcard fiction this time. Raw bits of language pushing the boundaries of poetry and fiction.

 
Editorial Comment Highlights
 

It is Spring. Spring in Victoria is sometimes a little hard to take: so much pink, so much yellow. The open mouths of tulips calling us to come out so early to come outside to play.

 

The sun through the kitchen window shows winters clutter, shows how much we need to clean up the mess we've made in the dark over the past four months. So cautiously we venture out.


In this spring issue, the big belly of winter sun is ready to kick back and turn up the heat. The characters in these stories laugh at themselves and recover, try to hide their discomfort but inevitably are found out.

 

In these pages there is nowhere to hide. And as Sarah Martel says in the opening poem 'everything suddenly / becomes clear.'
 

     
Table of Contents
 
cover art: Sunny Day by Mandy Foo
fiction
 
Suzanne Decker We Must Sing All Our Pieces Well
A.R. Gagne Crooked Ladders
Keely Thornton How Cold a Night Can Be
Megan Wainwright Your Appearance On the Nile
Brian Robertson Antony
Fraser MacLachlan What Are You Worried About
Leah Baade Who Said Anything About Marriage
Dave Neale Symptoms
Vanessa Hernandez The End of the World
Keira Shumuk Struggling to Stand Up
Keeley Teuber Ocean Green
Ryan Nicoll 2084
Whitney Kemble Ready With His Pants Down
   
poetry  
Sara Martel ’66 VW Van
Marla Landers “and in conclusion”
Leah Baade Four Poems
Matthieu Boyd Three Poems
Joshua Johnson Wadena, Saskatchewan
Michelle Hubbard I Am Mad
Sarah Cunningham Wallflower
S.E.Z Cronin I Dreamt of You
Colin Chapin My Grad Year
Christy Bown Daddy
Karen Andreassen Young Mother
Kelli Taaffe Lust
Elizabeth Ross the evening of the breakup
Karen L. Robertson Castrato
Mari Omori The Accident
Baljit Nagra Hidden Secrets
Lori A. May Sleep
Keira Shumuk Two Poems
Whitney Kemble Two Poems
A. R. Gagne Clashing Fragrances
Shannon Davis Two Poems
Rachel Magnusson Old Women
Stephanie Taylor Three Poems
Jenn Thompson Three Poems
Erica Wiekle Two Poems
Keeley Teuber Baby
Chelsea Wakelyn Could Have Fooled Me
Sean Horlor Four Poems
Katie Murphy Three Poems
   
visual arts  
Mandy Foo Sunny Day (cover)
Jared McCulloch Old Lady
Cara Schartner Phantom
   
   
miscellaneous  
Notes on Contributors